Omaha daily bee., 1887-09-02
STATE AND TERRITORY.

NeDraSka JOtt1nSS.
Fairmont glories in new fire engine
house.
plattsmouth is promised an electric
The Crete, Milford Il Western railroad
Candidates for county offices are ripen.
ing for the fall.
Burglars made haul of $50 worth of
pocket cutlery in Indianola Tuesday
night.
In the opinion of the Lincoln Democrat
the Omaha prize fighters are "pestifer-
GUS gang"
The ministers of the German Lutheran
church are discussing the plan of saliva
ton in Columbus.
Republican City draws well in the
storm line, No rival has yet appeared
to share her laurels.
Rumors of marriage and marriage of
roomers are multiplying rapidly in
Omaha. Both can be had for tritie.
Plattsmouth is city of magnificent ad-
ditions. Twenty seven hundred lots have
been added to her frame within the last
few months
The soldiers in Fillmore county will
hold a reunion at Geneva October 4, s
and g. Governor Thayer Senator Man
derson and Congressman Laird aud Nc
Shane are expected.
DIR. MERGERS motor gang introduced
the Omaha plan in Plattsmouth, Tuesday
night, by laying street railway track on a
road which the county commissioners
were slow in donating.
The coroner's jury on the body of AL
bert Liddle, the fireman killed in the re-
cent railroad wreck near Ainsworth,
brought in verdict censuring the section
la yin 1a,,
ger signals.
The Burlington road IS gathering wis.
dom frOn the disastrous experience of
other companies. The wooden culverts
and pile bridges on the main line are TO
be replaced by stone and iron ones, thus
discounting the possibility of a Chats
worth.
The industries of Nebraska City have
opened up with an active fall trade.
The distillery is crushing the fighting
qualities out of 600 bushels of corn a
day, and the manufacturing company
will start its machinery next week with
| a full force.
Prophet Foster, of Iowa, stakes a Sec
| ton of his fame on the prediction that
| the September storm period will begin
| on the 18th, reach its height on the 10Th,
and close on the 10th. He further de.
| clares that it will be bad time for fairs
ana OUTDOOR work,
s. II. ii. Clark, of the Missouri Pacific,
| has offered to give Nebraska City the
| joyful benefits of bob.tailed street car,
| on condition that the citizens donate the
necessary material to pave between the
rails of the track. The proposition is
| open for discussion, and the charitable
people have the floor.
W. H. Fitzgerald, the Little Rock
| printer who stumbled onto $50, 900 bills
| through the death of an uncle, was at
one time modest country editor in
Sterling, this state, and hurled types and
| ground out local thunder on the Gazette.
But he reformed in time and put IN prac-
tice the injunction, Remember thy uncle
IN the days of thy youth" The legacy is
consoling proof that he got there with
body and both feet.
The peacemakers of Fairmont are con-
siderate creatures. A gore stained immi-
| grant from Missouri named Bob Franklin,
with a voluminouS record as horsethiet
| and killer OF men, was wanted at his old
home, and posse of armed citizens and
detectives laId plans to capture HIM at
his cabin door. lie had taken brief
spin out Of town, and dozen brave
men awaited his return and the reward
He came at midnight, transacted the ao
| cumulated domestic business and ad'
journed on the morning train, while tine
minions of the law crawled out OF thell
holes and disbanded bloodless and
blear eyed, and thankful that they es
capped without scratch.
The coal barons of the east and rail
roads of the west are effectively slaught-